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McCain: I would have signed that Democratic letter asking the NFL to change the Redskins’ name
Hotair ^ | 05/23/2014 | AllahPundit

Posted on 05/23/2014 1:10:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

hey juan :

I hereby resign my office as Senator effective immediately _____________

how about signing that you JACKASS !@!!


21 posted on 05/23/2014 1:25:53 PM PDT by kingattax (America needs more real Americans.)
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To: brownsfan
New York Yankees- offends Southerns
San Francisco Giants - offends midgets er little people.
San Diego Padres offends muslims
Los Angles Angels offends athetists
Dallas Cowboys offends redskins
Utah Utes
San Diego State Aztecs - offends old dead Indian tribes
New Orleans Saints- offends athetists and sinners alike, might be one in the same.
23 posted on 05/23/2014 1:29:37 PM PDT by Kozy
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To: SeekAndFind
Good grief~!!!! Is this all McCain and the other senators spend their time doing while Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi is STILL being held in a Mexican prison????? Changing the name of the NFL's Redskin because it is OFFENSIVE?....Just considering that inane political correct scat is more than offensive to me and others who don't share their view on that name. Senators do something about your American Marine being held for way too long now....
24 posted on 05/23/2014 1:31:22 PM PDT by yoe
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To: brownsfan

Give them (the liberal fascists) time. They’ll eventually get around to all of them.

They’ll pick them off 1 by 1, from the weakest to the strong, until Notre Dame capitulates voluntarily (which I believe they will do by dropping the “fighting” part).


25 posted on 05/23/2014 1:32:24 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: SeekAndFind

That publicity hound was napping when the Dems were calling their media enablers to make their earth-shattering announcement to change the Redskins name. Meanwhile, our vets can’t get appointments at VA hospitals and the Democrats block action on the House bill to punish those who were in charge of the fraudulent double booking in the VA.


26 posted on 05/23/2014 1:32:33 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Kozy
Hey Johnny boy. Why not come to the defense of people in your state and veterans who are being denied medical care. Sign something, do something for once in your life.

Oh by the way, STFU.

27 posted on 05/23/2014 1:32:46 PM PDT by Kozy
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To: SeekAndFind

If Oklahoma is an Indian-derived word it has to be OK.


28 posted on 05/23/2014 1:33:13 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah and while we’re at it lets change the name of North and South Dakota,Mississippi,Delaware, Massachusetts, Ohio,Kansas, Arkansas and Minnesota. Funny, it’s rarely ever Native Americans who do the complaining. Just some bunch of guilt-ridden white liberals. (Are there any other kind?)


29 posted on 05/23/2014 1:33:55 PM PDT by jmacusa
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To: SeekAndFind

The entire United States of America is filled with names of cities, states, rivers, lakes, ponds, mountain ranges, and even trees that carry names of an INDIAN root. Ever gaze upon the majesty of a REDWOOD TREE?
If you agree with this claim regarding a name is a ‘racial slur’ then better tell virtually the vast majority of High Schools in the country to drop the names of their mascots. Rename the Cleveland baseball team. The Minnesota football team honors a tribe of people who ravaged Europe. There is no end to this nonsense.
One thing I must admit, though. The industry required to change every offending sign across the country would surely lead the country to a new prosperity, and create countless thousands of jobs for Americans.


30 posted on 05/23/2014 1:34:34 PM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (NY TIMES: We print the news as it fits our views.)
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To: brownsfan
“Let’s not be selectively outraged... BE CONSISTENT. FORCE OKLAHOMA TO CHANGE ITS NAME NOW! /s” Cleveland Indians Atlanta Braves Golden State Warriors ND Fighting Irish Boston Celtics Come on now people. So many stupid things to do, so little time.

from wikipedia Main article: List of U.S. state name etymologies

guess we're gonna rename most of the states

Alabama – named for the Alibamu, a tribe whose name derives from a Choctaw phrase meaning "thicket-clearers"[1] or "plant-cutters" (from albah, "(medicinal) plants", and amo, "to clear"). The modern Choctaw name for the tribe is Albaamu.[2]

Alaska – from Aleut alaxsxaq, "the mainland" (literally "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed").[3]

Arizona – may be from O'odham ali ṣona-g, "having a little spring", though it may come from Basque: aritz zonak ("Good oaks").[4]

Arkansas – from the Illinois rendering of the tribal autonym kką:ze (see Kansas, below), which the Miami and Illinois used to refer to the Quapaw.[4][5][6]

Connecticut – from some Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England (perhaps Mahican), meaning "at the long tidal river" (after the Connecticut River).[7][8] The name reflects Proto-Eastern-Algonquian *kwən-, "long"; *-əhtəkw, "tidal river"; and *-ənk, the locative suffix[9]

Hawaii - Hawaiian language name Hawaiʻi - from Hawaiki, legendary homeland of the Polynesians.[10] Hawaiki is believed to mean "place of the gods"[11]

Idaho – may be from Plains Apache ídaahę́, "enemy", used to refer to the Comanches,[12] or it may have been an invented word.

Illinois – from the French rendering of an Algonquian (perhaps Miami) word apparently meaning "s/he speaks normally" (c.f. Miami ilenweewa),[13] from Proto-Algonquian *elen-, "ordinary" + -wē, "to speak",[14][15] referring to the Illiniwek.

Iowa – from Dakota ayúxba or ayuxwe, via French Aiouez.[16][17][18]

Kansas – from the autonym kką:ze.[5]

Kentucky – from an Iroquoian word meaning "at the meadow" or "on the prairie"[19] (c.f. Seneca gëdá’geh [kẽtaʔkeh], "at the field").[20]

Massachusetts – from an Algonquian language of southern New England, and apparently means "near the small big mountain", usually identified as Great Blue Hill on the border of Milton and Canton, Massachusetts[21] (c.f. the Narragansett name Massachusêuck).[21]

Michigan – from Ottawa mishigami, "large water" or "large lake".".[22][23]

Minnesota – from Dakota mni-sota, "turbid water".[8][24]

Mississippi – from an Algonquian language, probably Ojibwe, meaning "big river" (Ojibwe misiziibi).[22][25]

Missouri – named for the Missouri tribe, whose name comes from Illinois mihsoori, "dugout canoe".[26]

Nebraska – from Chiwere ñįbraske, "flattened water".[27]

New Mexico – the name "Mexico" comes from Nahuatl Mēxihco, of unknown derivation.[28]

North and South Dakota – dakhóta comes from the Sioux word for "friend" or "ally".[27]

Ohio – from Seneca ohi:yo’, "beautiful river".[29][30]

Oklahoma – invented by Chief Allen Wright as a rough translation of "Indian Territory"; in Choctaw, okla means "people", "tribe", or "nation", and homa- means "red", thus: "Red people".[8][31]

Tennessee – Derived from the name of a Cherokee village, Tanasi, whose etymology is unknown.[32]

Texas – ultimately from Caddo táyshaʔ, "friend".[33][34]

Utah – from a language of one of the Ute tribe's neighbors, such as Western Apache yúdah, "high up".[35]

Wisconsin – originally "Mescousing", from an Algonquian language, though the source and meaning is not entirely clear; most likely from the Miami word Meskonsing meaning "it lies red"[36][37] (c.f. Ojibwe miskosin).[22]

Wyoming – from Munsee Delaware xwé:wamənk, "at the big river flat".[38]

31 posted on 05/23/2014 1:35:43 PM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: cripplecreek

Chicago means “stinky onion” in Indian.


32 posted on 05/23/2014 1:36:29 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: shankbear

McCain. You are a stupid old creep. Go change your friggin Depends.


Good one. Johnny doesn’t realize, and I don’t thing he’d care, that many of us voted for him just because we didn’t want Obama, but in reality he may have another version of O.


33 posted on 05/23/2014 1:36:50 PM PDT by patriotspride
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To: CaptainAmiigaf

“The entire United States of America is filled with names of cities, states, rivers, lakes, ponds, mountain ranges, and even trees that carry names of an INDIAN root.”

From what native american word and language is ‘redskins’ derived?


34 posted on 05/23/2014 1:37:35 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: SeekAndFind
McCain living proof that Term Limits are needed.
35 posted on 05/23/2014 1:37:39 PM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
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To: SeekAndFind
So,
The dims get someone to pen a letter, 49 soon-to-be-forgotten politicians sign it and send it to an important guy.

Yah ?? .. So ??

36 posted on 05/23/2014 1:38:47 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am not surprised for I will go to my grave convinced that McCain was a shill for the “Divine One.”


37 posted on 05/23/2014 1:38:49 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: brownsfan

Massachusetts


38 posted on 05/23/2014 1:39:11 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And you would undermine the 1st ammendment as well the commerce clause.

For what?

You fatuous, self serving, Ass....


39 posted on 05/23/2014 1:39:14 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: CaptainAmiigaf
RE: The industry required to change every offending sign across the country would surely lead the country to a new prosperity, and create countless thousands of jobs for Americans.

I think this would be another example of Bastiat's Broken Windows Fallacy
40 posted on 05/23/2014 1:39:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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